We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Rubrik based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"We are running Hyper-V on twin servers in failover, and being able to manage servers from anywhere I need to, virtually, has been a game changer."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"The price was right."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it has centralized management."
"Some of the most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis are that it's free from Nutanix and it's very stable."
"The product is easy to manage."
"It is a good solution and it is easy to work on their platform."
"Nutanix has the best virtual desktop infrastructure."
"We are suggesting Nutanix to the management because of scalability and time efficiency."
"It supports multi-cloud integration that includes AWS, Google, and Azure."
"Karbon is a must-have as it drastically simplifies the deployment of Kubernetes."
"The archiving, off-of-box, is awesome. It lets you put your data where you want it and gives you the peace of mind of having more than one copy of it. And it's smart about the way that it does the archiving. It doesn't just copy one-for-one. It does all of its processing of the deduplication and compression before it sends it off to the archive, which helps with our cloud costs."
"The security and the ransomware protection are most valuable."
"The fact that the API is so available to us with the playground — there's an internal and public playground — is also valuable. We can write API calls — and although I'm sure there's a way we could hurt the data — we write those calls with a lot of certainty that we won't be destroying anything. We write these API calls using really easy mechanisms and generate automation a lot faster."
"Product support team is excellent, with issues typically being resolved on the same day."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The most valuable feature has been the Live Mount feature."
"Rubrik is very simple to implement and setup. "
"It has a streamlined user interface, provides an improved tech support experience, and reduces time required to locate and restore data."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"The Command Center, a free guest VM for management and monitoring, leaves something to be desired. It could have more accurate real-time information and better reporting visuals, which seem to be an afterthought."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"The product requires a lot of resources."
"Some clients find the solution's cost to be too high."
"They have offered some new features that I have not deployed so I assume that these issues might have been addressed already, but, at my time there was a networking problem."
"The price could be lower."
"One thing to keep in mind is that only experts can use it. It has to be in the proper hands, instead of going to XYZ people just for some cost savings. So lift-and-shift and migrations might be tricky, because it is not like a VMware."
"AHV is a great hypervisor but still limited compared to VMware. AHV is the one product they must improve."
"When we have issues with the solution, they tend to be around networking."
"As of now, Acropolis and VMware cannot talk to each other. Until we have some kind of interface, it would be much better for Nutanix if they built an interface that can talk. Otherwise, if I have a VMware stack and I already have a Nutanix stack, I can create containers, I create clusters on VMware, I create clusters on Nutanix."
"Troubleshooting failed backups is difficult, and deciphering the logs without the help of support is usually almost impossible."
"The only thing that can be improved is catering for open source databases because at the moment it doesn't cater for Mongo, MySQL, and Postgres."
"The web interface could benefit from some improvement, particularly in terms of alerting and dashboard clarity. The cloud web interface is somewhat confusing and could use more development attention. Additionally, it's essential to ensure that local on-premise management options remain available alongside cloud-based solutions, as internet availability can affect backup management. Regarding features, cross-hypervisor restore functionality would be a valuable addition, allowing for greater flexibility in restoring VMs across different environments."
"I would love to be able to just get from the dashboard to a file that I need, or a system that I need."
"There are some features to improve on in Rubrik. For instance, they should have a tool where we can integrate with our SAP HANA. Directly from the HANA studio, we should be able to do a backup. That's what I'm looking forward to in the future."
"The dashboard and user interface could be improved to make them more user-friendly."
"The Polaris piece could use improvement. When you get a report and you have events that are suspicious, you cannot drill down and find out why it's suspicious. You only know it's suspicious, but you don't know the root cause. Other than that, everything works well."
"They should give more access to the backend capabilities. From a customer point of view, you do not have access to all the features on the system. You have to engage their support to perform some of the tasks. It would be helpful for an experienced engineer to be able to go and do some of those tasks prior to contacting the support."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 82 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Rubrik is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with minimal training required, innovative, good support". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain).
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